Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 26 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 -15 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 93 22 49
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 12.25% 5.70% 12.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.63% 19.30% 39.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 16 42
10th Percentile £315 £466 £328
25th Percentile £405 £492 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £544 £592
Median % change year-on-year -11.08% -8.07% +1.76%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £645
90th Percentile £688 £738 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -3.60% -2.44% -5.96%

All Cloud Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 285 114 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 37.55% 29.53% 30.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 74 95
10th Percentile £312 £383 £355
25th Percentile £400 £431 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £538 £599 £609
90th Percentile £600 £668 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - £20.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate - £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.88 £27.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -24.09% +37.50% -11.11%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 6 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +9 89 £484 -11.08% 52
Doncaster - 3 £413 - 14
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.45%) Confluence
2 3 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.15%) CICS
3 2 (2.15%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.15%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.08%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.08%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.08%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.08%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 61 (65.59%) AWS
2 53 (56.99%) GCP
3 17 (18.28%) Entra ID
4 15 (16.13%) Azure AKS
5 13 (13.98%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (13.98%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (11.83%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (11.83%) OpenShift
7 10 (10.75%) SaaS
8 9 (9.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 8 (8.60%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (7.53%) Power Platform
11 6 (6.45%) GitHub
12 4 (4.30%) Akamai
13 3 (3.23%) Cloudflare
13 3 (3.23%) OneDrive
14 2 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
14 2 (2.15%) ChatGPT
14 2 (2.15%) Collibra
15 1 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.83%) Firewall
2 5 (5.38%) VPN
3 4 (4.30%) DNS
3 4 (4.30%) HTTP
4 3 (3.23%) HTTPS
5 2 (2.15%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (2.15%) iSCSI
5 2 (2.15%) Kerberos
5 2 (2.15%) LAN
5 2 (2.15%) NAS
5 2 (2.15%) Network Security
5 2 (2.15%) SAN
5 2 (2.15%) SSL
5 2 (2.15%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.15%) VSAN
5 2 (2.15%) WAN
6 1 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (1.08%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.08%) FCoE
6 1 (1.08%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.98%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (7.53%) Power BI
3 5 (5.38%) Metadata
3 5 (5.38%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.30%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.15%) DataStage
5 2 (2.15%) DB2
5 2 (2.15%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.15%) Spark SQL
5 2 (2.15%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.08%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.08%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.08%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.08%) MySQL
6 1 (1.08%) Redis
6 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (16.13%) Jenkins
1 15 (16.13%) JIRA
2 9 (9.68%) Postman
2 9 (9.68%) SoapUI
3 7 (7.53%) GitLab
4 4 (4.30%) Git
5 3 (3.23%) Selenium
6 2 (2.15%) JUnit
6 2 (2.15%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.15%) TestNG
7 1 (1.08%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.08%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (1.08%) Travis CI
7 1 (1.08%) Zephyr
General
1 44 (47.31%) Social Skills
2 19 (20.43%) Finance
3 14 (15.05%) Banking
4 5 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.38%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.30%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.23%) Law
7 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.15%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.15%) Police
8 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.08%) Legal
8 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.08%) Private Banking
8 1 (1.08%) Retail
8 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (17.20%) Analyst
2 14 (15.05%) Developer
3 11 (11.83%) Architect
4 10 (10.75%) Business Analyst
5 8 (8.60%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (8.60%) Test Analyst
6 7 (7.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Consultant
7 5 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.30%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 4 (4.30%) Lead
9 3 (3.23%) 2nd Line Support
9 3 (3.23%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.23%) IT Support
9 3 (3.23%) Security Engineer
9 3 (3.23%) Senior
10 2 (2.15%) Banking Business Analyst
10 2 (2.15%) Lead Architect
10 2 (2.15%) SAP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.90%) SAML
2 11 (11.83%) JSON
2 11 (11.83%) OAuth
3 10 (10.75%) OpenID
3 10 (10.75%) REST
4 8 (8.60%) Regular Expression
5 7 (7.53%) Hugging Face
5 7 (7.53%) OpenCV
5 7 (7.53%) PyTorch
5 7 (7.53%) SpaCy
5 7 (7.53%) TensorFlow
6 6 (6.45%) LDAP
6 6 (6.45%) OAuth2
7 5 (5.38%) Middleware
8 4 (4.30%) RESTful
8 4 (4.30%) XML
9 2 (2.15%) .NET
9 2 (2.15%) CSS
9 2 (2.15%) Hibernate
9 2 (2.15%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.05%) Cloud Native
2 13 (13.98%) Onboarding
3 8 (8.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (6.45%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.30%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.23%) Replication
6 3 (3.23%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.15%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.15%) Clustering
7 2 (2.15%) IoT
7 2 (2.15%) Mainframe
7 2 (2.15%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.08%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (1.08%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.08%) FMCG
8 1 (1.08%) NHS
8 1 (1.08%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.08%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.08%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.53%) Linux
2 6 (6.45%) Windows
3 2 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.15%) Solaris
3 2 (2.15%) VMS
3 2 (2.15%) zOS
4 1 (1.08%) Android
4 1 (1.08%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.08%) CentOS
4 1 (1.08%) MVS
4 1 (1.08%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.08%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (49.46%) DevOps
2 35 (37.63%) CI/CD
3 26 (27.96%) Agile
4 21 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (22.58%) Stakeholder Management
5 17 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (15.05%) Containerisation
6 14 (15.05%) Cybersecurity
6 14 (15.05%) DevSecOps
7 13 (13.98%) Migration
7 13 (13.98%) Roadmaps
8 12 (12.90%) Scrum
9 11 (11.83%) Cloud Security
9 11 (11.83%) GAP Analysis
9 11 (11.83%) Identity Management
9 11 (11.83%) Security Testing
10 10 (10.75%) Identity Access Management
11 9 (9.68%) Microservices
11 9 (9.68%) Privileged Access Management
11 9 (9.68%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 26 (27.96%) Python
2 13 (13.98%) SQL
3 12 (12.90%) Java
4 6 (6.45%) Bash
5 4 (4.30%) Groovy
5 4 (4.30%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.15%) C#
6 2 (2.15%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.08%) Bicep
7 1 (1.08%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.08%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (10.75%) CISM
1 10 (10.75%) CISSP
1 10 (10.75%) ISTQB
2 3 (3.23%) Azure Certification
2 3 (3.23%) CEH
2 3 (3.23%) Degree
2 3 (3.23%) GIAC
2 3 (3.23%) GWAPT
2 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (3.23%) SAP Certification
3 1 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.08%) CCA
3 1 (1.08%) CCSK
3 1 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.08%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.08%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.60%) GDPR
1 8 (8.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (7.53%) NIST
2 7 (7.53%) PCI DSS
2 7 (7.53%) QA
3 1 (1.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (15.05%) Active Directory
2 12 (12.90%) Docker
3 6 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.23%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.23%) KVM
5 2 (2.15%) NFS
5 2 (2.15%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.15%) vSphere
6 1 (1.08%) BitLocker
6 1 (1.08%) Ceph
6 1 (1.08%) QEMU
6 1 (1.08%) Snort
6 1 (1.08%) SRDF
6 1 (1.08%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.08%) Xen
6 1 (1.08%) XenApp
6 1 (1.08%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 38 (40.86%) Kubernetes
2 28 (30.11%) Terraform
3 16 (17.20%) Ansible
4 10 (10.75%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (2.15%) Argo
6 2 (2.15%) CSIRT
6 2 (2.15%) Grafana
6 2 (2.15%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.15%) Puppet
7 1 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.08%) Kibana
7 1 (1.08%) logstash
7 1 (1.08%) Podman
7 1 (1.08%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.08%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (26.88%) Microsoft
2 15 (16.13%) Google
3 14 (15.05%) F5
4 8 (8.60%) Alibaba
4 8 (8.60%) BeyondTrust
4 8 (8.60%) CyberArk
4 8 (8.60%) Thycotic
5 6 (6.45%) Oracle
5 6 (6.45%) VMware
6 5 (5.38%) Cisco
7 4 (4.30%) Imperva
7 4 (4.30%) NetApp
7 4 (4.30%) SAP
8 3 (3.23%) EMC
9 2 (2.15%) Delphix
9 2 (2.15%) IBM
9 2 (2.15%) Informatica
9 2 (2.15%) MuleSoft
9 2 (2.15%) OpenAI
9 2 (2.15%) Red Hat